Electric cigar lighter



March 22 1927.

A. SCHOELLER ELECTRIC CIGAR LIGHTER Filed May 6, 1926 /M f @M/W 9 Wax- Patented Mar. 22, 1927.

ALFRED SCHOELLER, OF FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY.

ELECTRIC CIGAR LIGHTER: BEU D Application filed. Kay 6,

Electric lighters are known which comprise a carrier for the heating wire removably mounted in a contact casing and adapted to be switched into the circuit by being moved in this casing. In cigar lighters of this type and of known construction, which are operated by one hand, the carrier of the heating wire must be displaced in axial direction in opposition to the action of a spring to switch the same into the circuit. As soon as the pressure ceases, the carrier of the heating wire is automatically cut out so that it can be removed from the casing and used for lighting a cigar.

Electric cigar lighters of this type possess all the inconvenience that, if any person should accident-ally press on the ci ar lighter the circuit might be closed so t at either the garment of the person is damaged or the cigar lighter destroyed.

According to the invention the holder of the heating wire carrier is elastically mounted in the contact casing opposite the current supply contacts so that it has to be tipped, turned or placed on edge in the contact casing for closing the circuit. When released,

the holder returns instantaneously into the cut-out position. @wing to the tipping, turnlng or placing on edge of the removable heating wire carrier the danger is considerably reduced that, by accidental depression of the push button the circuit be closed.

The carrier for the heating wire isinsert ed into the contact casing perpendicularly to the central line of the casing and the carrier can consequently be made flatter than this would be otherwise the case, and the heating wires are visible from the outside. In the drawing a form of construction of the invention is shown by way of example Fig. 1 shows the cigar lighter in'the position of rest, the casing beingshown in section.

Fig. 2 shows the switched-inposition.

Fig. 3 shows in plan view the casing, the carrier of the heating wire being removed. A is a carrier in which a heating wire B located. The carrier A has on its bottom cigar lighter in "the into touch with the 1926, Serial No. 107,083, and in Germany July 6, 1925.

plate a button-shaped extension D of metal 5 which is to be inserted, in well known manner, into a frame-like holder H of the contact casing C. This holder H is yieldably mounted by means of a blade spring L, M. The spring M bears at the one end onto the slotted holder H and at the other end ontothe bottom plate F of'the casing. The contact spring E is fixed to the slotted holder H. Between the bottom plate F and easing C an insulating plate 0 ofpress-spahn is inserted, so that one of the branches of the circuit is not formed by the casing. I

As shown in Fig. 3 the contact plug 1 is electrically connected to a contact coating N which is mounted *in the casing insulated spaced from the contact coating N. When the carrier A of the heatingwire is tipped, I I

as shown in Fig. 2, the blade spring E comes contact coating N, so

contact spring E is in the position of rest 7 that current flows through the heating spiral As soon as the heating wire has been eufiiciently heated, the carrier A is pulled out of the slotted holder H and lighting a cigar.

' After use the carrier A the slotted holder H so that it re-assumes the position shown in Fig. 1, the heating wire B being cut out.

I claim i used for 4 is re-inserted into to Electric cigar lighter comprising in combination, a contact casing, a blade spring in said contact casing, a holder yieldably mounted in said casing opposite said contact spring, a carrier in said holder, a heating wire in said carrier, in said casing. and a. contact spring con-- nected with said blade spring for said holder and having a contact pin opposite said contact coating so that said holder has to be tipped, turned or the circuit for the heating wire. i, I In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ALFRED SQHOELLER.

a contact coating placed on edge for closing 

